I'm about to get on a plane and will be gone for a couple weeks, but didn't want to leave you Breaking Changeless so I did the thing where I stand up in front of a microphone and talked at you. Again. Like I do.

Fun fact: this is the first and only time I've taken a phone call live, on-air! I was just too lazy to edit that out gracefully.

Whenever I go to Japan solo, I experience moments of loneliness, so I'd really appreciate it if you sent me some praise or complaints or ideas to podcast@searls.co and I'll feel comforted by the knowledge that you exist. Your engagement sustains me.

Lotta weird and dumb links this go-round:

Eric Doggett is a great friend/artist
Fortune Feimster isn't spelled how I would've guessed
Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer (Gen 2) is the best gift anyone's given me in a while
POSSE Party's tutorial videos are just enough to convince you to either bother or not bother
Reddit's r/selfhosted is at least a little self-aware
I'm giving myself some grace when it comes to the newsletter
EDID Emulators are a hardware product that exist only because Windows is bad
Looking forward to trying Happy for remote Claude Code / Codex CLI work
Aaron's puns, ranked
Pebble Index 01
Google's / XReal Putting It All on Glasses Next Year
XReal is partnering with Asus ROG, too
Google and Apple partner on better Android-iPhone switching
NYT profiles John Ternus
AirPods Pro with IR cameras (instead of stem clicks?!)
JPMorgan Chase Reaches a Deal to Take Over the Apple Credit Card (News+)
The Clicks Power Keyboard looks rad
Expedition 33's Game Awards sweep has me asking, who will be the first to VEGOT?
Valve still sending this guy chocolates every Christmas
The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?
The 5090 could cost $5090 by the end of 2026
Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026
Racks of AI chips are too damn heavy (News+)
Vera Rubin is probably even heavier
GPT Image 1.5 is better but not good enough
PSA: make ChatGPT less warm, enthusiastic, and emoji-tastic (News+)
You can (supposedly) buy your Instacart groceries without leaving ChatGPT
The massive year-end Ed Zitron newsletter.
Podcasts are AI now (News+)
Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
A Stanford degree wont save you (News+)
'Godfather of SaaS' Says He Replaced Most of His Sales Team With AI Agents
NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clocks
Swearing Actually Seems to Make Humans Physically Stronger
Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years Due to Trump Eliminating Funding
Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X (News+)
Outer Worlds 2
Ball X Pit
Stranger Things Season 5
Reddit's terrific r/RealOrAI sub
The RayNeo Air 3s are the display glasses I'd recommend if you can find them for $199
Murderbot
UDCast universal subtitling (and the movie I wanted to watch)
Beckygram.com

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